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Vestas taps green bond market with €500m issue
04 March 2015Vestas has placed a €500 million ($553 million) green bond with European investors.
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DNB issues first green bond from Nordic commercial bank
16 February 2015DNB, one of Norway's leading commercial banks, has issued the first green bond by a commercial bank in the Nordic region.
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Oslo stock exchange publishes first green bond list
03 February 2015The Oslo stock exchange has become the first exchange to publish a listing of green bond issues.
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Vardar is latest utility to enter green bond market
06 January 2015A Scandinavian utility has issued its first green bond, raising NOK300 million ($39.3 million).
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Norway's NTE issues NOK750m green bond to refinance hydro plants [UPDATED]
06 November 2014Power generating company Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk (NTE) has issued Norway's second corporate green bond – a NOK750 million ($110 million) issue that was oversubscribed in two hours.
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Eight Danish investors commit DKK8bn to infra fund
03 October 2014A group of Danish institutional investors has committed DKK8 billion ($1.4 billion) to a fund that will finance infrastructure projects including wind farms and biomass power plants.
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PRI launches carbon disclosure initiative for investors
25 September 2014A group of major investors has agreed to publicly disclose the carbon footprint of their portfolios, as part of a new initiative to encourage decarbonisation.
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$5trn investor group pushes for sustainability action
22 May 2014There is a "moral, financial and economic case for action" from the investment community to deal with environmental risks that intersect with financial markets, a report published by 11 major investors has claimed.
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AfDB issues its second green bond of 2014
11 March 2014The African Development Bank (AfDB) has tapped the green bond market for the second time this year, after a SEK 1 billion ($153 million) issue was bought by Swedish investors.
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Swedish insurer snaps up African green bond
24 February 2014SPP, a Swedish pensions and insurance provider owned by Storebrand, was the sole buyer of a SEK 1 billion ($153 million) green bond issue from the African Development Bank (AfDB).